Thank God for butterfly bushes at this time of year to distract us from the bleak landscape. Growing up in Australia my grandparents had a farm on the edge of the Outback. They made a privacy fence which was as gray leafed variety buddlia with large yellow flower stems. Of coursed when you're a kid everything seemed larger than what actually was but I project it to be 10' wide at at least 12' high running at least30 long'. Nothing could make it through but the poisonous snakes.
Our gardens (in the piedmont of SC and the mountains of NC) are increasingly home to native plants, birds, small mammals, and insects of all sorts. My gardening companion (my husband) is equally the gardener in our gardens. Woody, our rescue Golden, is now putting his own stamp on our gardens. He follows his previous fellow goldens (and my former gardening assistants): Mocha and Chessie. They bring life to our gardens.
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Thank God for butterfly bushes at this time of year to distract us from the bleak landscape. Growing up in Australia my grandparents had a farm on the edge of the Outback. They made a privacy fence which was as gray leafed variety buddlia with large yellow flower stems.
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